MARCO BERNARDI CONTACT INFORMATION MAIN RESEARCH INTERESTS EMPLOYMENT EDUCATION FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS GRADUATE STUDENT ADVISEES POSTDOCTORAL ADVISEES

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1 MARCO BERNARDI CONTACT INFORMATION Phone: ADDRESS California Institute of Technology 1200 E California Blvd. MC Pasadena CA, MAIN RESEARCH INTERESTS First-principles computation of electronic and optical properties of materials Ultrafast carrier and excited state dynamics in materials Novel materials and interfaces for solar energy and optoelectronics EMPLOYMENT Assistant Professor Department of Applied Physics and Materials Science California Institute of Technology. Pasadena, CA, USA Dates: September 2015 Present Postdoctoral Fellow Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Physics Department, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Dates: September 2013 August 2015 Supervisors: Prof. Steven G. Louie, Prof. Jeffrey B. Neaton Research Assistant Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA Department of Materials Science and Engineering Dates: September 2008 August 2013 Supervisor: Prof. Jeffrey C. Grossman EDUCATION Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA Ph.D. in Materials Science, June GPA 5.0. Advisor: Prof. Jeffrey C. Grossman Thesis: Novel Materials, Theoretical Spectroscopy, and Multiscale Simulation in Nanoscale Photovoltaics University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy M.Sc. (Laurea Specialistica) in Materials Science, January Summa Cum Laude. University of Rome La Sapienza, Rome, Italy B.Sc. (Laurea Triennale) in Chemistry, November Major in Materials Chemistry. Summa Cum Laude. FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS 2015 Psi-K Volker Heine Young Investigator Award 2011 Intel Ph.D. Fellowship Award 2009 Graduate Student Exceptional Performance Award 2007 Australian Endeavour Research Fellowship GRADUATE STUDENT ADVISEES Vatsal Jhalani (Applied Physics), I-Te Lu (Materials Science), Vsevolod Ivanov (Physics) POSTDOCTORAL ADVISEES Luis Agapito, Jin-Jian Zhou MARCO BERNARDI 1

2 PUBLICATIONS 1. M. Bernardi, B. Barker, D. Vigil-Fowler, J. B. Neaton, and S. G. Louie Structural Effects on the Bandstructure and Carrier Dynamics in Methylammonium Lead Iodide Perovskites. Submitted. 2. J. Mustafa,* M. Bernardi,* J. B. Neaton, and S. G. Louie Ab Initio Electronic Relaxation Times and Transport in Noble Metals Physical Review Letters (under review). *Equal contributors. 3. M. Bernardi and J. C. Grossman Computer Simulations Across Time and Length Scales in Photovoltaics Energy and Environmental Science. Invited Review (submitted). 4. M. Bernardi, M. Palummo, C. Ataca, and J. C. Grossman Optical and Electronic Properties of Two-Dimensional Layered Materials. Nanophotonics Accepted (in press). 5. M. Bernardi, J. Mustafa, J. B. Neaton, and S. G. Louie Theory and Computation of Hot Carriers Generated by Surface Plasmon Polaritons in Noble Metals. Nature Communications 6:7044, DOI: /ncomms M. Bernardi, D. Vigil-Fowler, C. S. Ong, J. B. Neaton, and S. G. Louie Ab Initio Study of Hot Electrons in GaAs Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 2015, 112, M. Palummo*, M. Bernardi*, and J. C. Grossman Exciton Radiative Lifetimes in Two-Dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenides. Nano Letters 2015, 15, *Equal contributors. 8. M. Bernardi, D. Vigil-Fowler, J. Lischner, J. B. Neaton, and S. G. Louie Ab Initio Study of Hot Carriers in the First Picosecond after Sunlight Absorption in Silicon Physical Review Letters 2014, 112, Featured in the Berkeley Lab News. Highlighted in the DOE BES website and in the SciDAC program. 9. F. Risplendi, M. Bernardi, G. Cicero, and J. C. Grossman Structure-Property Relations in Amorphous Carbon for Photovoltaics. Applied Physics Letters 2014, 105, M. Gong, T. A. Shastry, Y. Xie, M. Bernardi, D. Jasion, T. J. Marks, J. C. Grossman, S. Ren, and M. Hersam Polychiral Semiconducting Carbon Nanotube-Fullerene Solar Cells. Nano Letters 2014, 14, Featured by Solar Daily, Spectrum IEEE, and Physics World. 11. A. El Ballouli, E. Alarousu, M. Bernardi, S. Aly, A. LaGrow, O. Bakr, and O. Mohammed Tunable Ultrafast Charge Transfer at the PbS Quantum Dot and PCBM Interface J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, Cover article in JACS. 12. M. Bernardi, M. Palummo, and J. C. Grossman Extraordinary Sunlight Absorption and 1 nm-thick Photovoltaics using 2D Monolayer Materials. Nano Letters 2013, 13, One of the most read papers in year 2013 in Nano Letters. Cited over 300 times. Featured in the MIT News, NERSC webpage, Materials 360, and over 100 websites worldwide. 13. M. Bernardi and J. C. Grossman Optimal Sunlight Harvesting in Photovoltaics and Photosynthesis. J. Phys. Chem. C 2013, 117, P. V. Kumar, M. Bernardi, and J. C. Grossman The Impact of Functionalization on the Stability, Work Function and Photoluminescence of Graphene Oxide. ACS Nano 2013, 7, M. Bernardi, M. Palummo, and J. C. Grossman Semiconducting Monolayer Materials as a Tunable Platform for Excitonic Solar Cells. ACS Nano 2012, 6, MARCO BERNARDI 2

3 16. M. Bernardi, J. Lohrman, P. Kumar, A. Kirkeminde, N. Ferralis, J. C. Grossman, and S. Ren Nanocarbon-Based Photovoltaics. ACS Nano 2012, 6, Featured in Scientific American magazine. 17. M. Bernardi, M. Palummo, and J. C. Grossman Optoelectronic Properties and Excitons in Hybridized Boron Nitride and Graphene Hexagonal Monolayers. Physical Review Letters 2012, 108, M. Bernardi, N. Ferralis, J. H. Wan, R. Villalon, and J. C. Grossman Solar Energy Generation in Three Dimensions. Energy and Environmental Science 2012, 5, (Communication). Featured in the MIT News, MIT webpage, Technology Review and Wired magazines. 19. S. Ren*, M. Bernardi*, R.R. Lunt, V. Bulovic, J. C. Grossman, and S. Gradecak Efficient Carbon Nanotube/P3HT Solar Cells: Active Layer Morphology, Electrical and Optical Properties. Nano Letters 2011, 11, *Equal Contributors. 20. M. Bernardi, M. Giulianini, and J. C. Grossman Self-Assembly and Its Impact on Interfacial Charge Transfer in Carbon Nanotube/P3HT Solar Cells. ACS Nano 2010, 4, B. Myers, M. Bernardi, and J. C. Grossman Three-Dimensional Photovoltaics. Applied Physics Letters 2010, 96, Featured in the MIT News, and many websites worldwide. 22. M. Bernardi, S.N. Raja, and S.K. Lim Nanotwinned Gold Nanowires Obtained by Chemical Synthesis. Nanotechnology 2010, 21, A. Sgarlata, L. Persichetti, M. Fanfoni, M. Bernardi, and A. Balzarotti Step-Height Transition on Vicinal Si(001) Surfaces: a Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy Study. Physical Review B 2009, 80, M. Bernardi, A. Sgarlata, M. Fanfoni, L. Persichetti, N. Motta, and A. Balzarotti Self-assembly of Ge Quantum Dots on Silicon: an Example of Controlled Nanomanufacturing. Superlattices and Microstructures 2009, 46, M. Bernardi, A. Sgarlata, M. Fanfoni, A. Balzarotti, and N. Motta A Study of the Pair Distribution Function of Self-Organized Ge Quantum Dots. Applied Physics Letters 2008, 93, Featured in the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology in 08/2008. RECENT TALKS 2016 MRS Spring Meeting, Phoeniz AZ, USA. Structural Effects on the Bandstructure and Carrier Dynamics in Methylammonium Lead Iodide APS March Meeting, Baltimore MD, USA. Structural Effects on the Bandstructure and Carrier Dynamics in Methylammonium Lead Iodide Hume-Rothery Award Symposium, TMS Annual Conference (Invited Talk). Nashville, TN. Ultrafast Dynamics of Excited Electrons in Materials Biennial Total Energy and Force Methods Workshop (Invited Talk). University of Luxembourg. Ultrafast Dynamics of Excited Electrons in Materials Center for Free Electron Laser (CFEL) Theory Seminar (Invited Talk). Hamburg, Germany Oxford MML Seminar (Invited Talk). Oxford, UK Thomas Young Center Soiree on Photovoltaics at Imperial College (Invited Talk). London, UK. New Regimes for Solar Cell Materials: Ultrafast, Ultrathin, and Complex. MARCO BERNARDI 3

4 2015 Materials Research Lecture at Caltech (Invited Talk). Pasadena, USA Psi-K Conference (Invited Talk). San Sebastian, Spain th Workshop on Recent Development in Electronic Structure Theory (Invited Talk). Seattle WA, USA. Ultrafast Dynamics of Excited Electrons in Semiconductors and Metals for Energy Applications Stanford Materials Science Colloquium (Invited Talk), Stanford CA, USA. Ultrafast Dynamics of Excited Electrons in Semiconductors and Metals for Energy Applications MRS Spring Meeting, San Francisco CA, USA. Theory and Computation of Hot Carriers Generated by Surface Plasmon Polaritons in Noble Metals MRS Spring Meeting, San Francisco CA, USA. Exciton Radiative Lifetimes in Two-Dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenides APS March Meeting, San Antonio TX, USA. Theory and Computation of Hot Carriers Generated by Surface Plasmon Polaritons in Noble Metals 2014 Caltech / HKUST Workshop on Fuel Cells and Electrolyzers (Invited Talk), Hong Kong. Ultrafast Processes and Ultrathin Materials in Solar Energy Conversion International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors, Austin TX, USA. Hot Carriers in the First Picosecond After Sunlight Absorption in Silicon and GaAs from First-Principles Technical University Federico Santa Maria Physics Colloquium (Invited Talk), Valparaiso, Chile. Ultrafast Processes and Ultrathin Materials in Solar Energy Conversion MRS Spring Meeting, San Francisco CA, USA. Optimal Sunlight Harvesting in Photovoltaics and Photosynthesis MRS Spring Meeting, San Francisco CA, USA. The First Picosecond after Sunlight Absorption in Silicon from First-Principles Calculations 2014 APS March Meeting, Denver CO, USA. The First Picosecond after Sunlight Absorption in Silicon from First-Principles Calculations 2013 MRS Fall Meeting, Boston MA, USA. Extraordinary Sunlight Absorption and 1 nm-thick Photovoltaics using Two-Dimensional Monolayer Materials Caltech Materials Science Department Colloquium (Invited Talk), Pasadena CA, USA. Novel Materials, Theoretical Spectroscopy, and Multiscale Simulation in Nanoscale Photovoltaics APS March Meeting Invited Talk. Baltimore MD, USA. Computational Spectroscopy for Nanoscale Photovoltaics CECAM conference on Energy from the Sun: Computational Physicists Take up the Challenge. Sardinia, Italy. Tunable and Polymer-Free Excitonic Solar Cells from Ab-Initio Calculations HOPV Conference, Uppsala, Sweden. Carbon-Based Photovoltaics BACON Meetings Seminar, Boston MA, USA. Optoelectronic Properties of 2D Monolayers with Domains of Graphene and Boron Nitride APS March Meeting, Boston MA, USA. All-Carbon Photovoltaics Physics Colloquium, Invited Seminar at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy. Multiscale Design and Novel Materials for Solar Energy Harvesting by Computer Simulation MRS Spring Meeting, San Francisco CA, USA. Three-Dimensional Photovoltaics: Technology, Materials, and Devices APS March Meeting, Dallas TX, USA. Computational Design of All-Carbon Photovoltaics APS March Meeting, Portland OR, USA. Three-Dimensional Photovoltaics APS March Meeting, Portland OR, USA. Self-Assembly in Carbon Nanotube/P3HT Solar Cells. MARCO BERNARDI 4

5 TEACHING MS 131 Structure and Bonding in Materials, Winter Guest lecturer in Berkeley Physics 240A and 240B Courses on Quantum Theory of Solids. Teaching Assistant in MIT s Graduate Course 3.23, Electrical, Optical and Magnetic Properties of Materials. Teaching Certificate from MIT s Teaching and Learning Laboratory. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Journal reviewer: Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Communications, Scientific Reports, Nano Letters, ACS Nano, Applied Physics Letters, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Nanotechnology, Nanoscale, Journal of Experimental Nanoscience, Superlattices and Microstructures, Applied Surface Science. Grant reviews: National Science Foundation (NSF) CAMPUS SERVICE Committees: Resnick Fellowship Committee (2016) PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS American Physical Society (APS), Materials Research Society (MRS), American Chemical Society (ACS) MARCO BERNARDI 5